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Reporting the facts of a story accurately has never been something that the Post Standard ever worried about. Ms. Weaver... could you please change the name of the candidate that the Onondaga County Republican Committee is backing... that would be John Sharron, not Mr. Roberts.

It wasn't back stage passes, they were meet and greet passes and people actually did win them from WOLF 105.1 because I talked to them at that show. Who said they had tickets to give away?... they only announce that the show was coming in November. domeeddie... get your facts straight.

Al couldn't run his own business, went bankrupt... the Assembly was going to be his retirement, he ran the first time because he really didn't have anything else.. he thought.."why not?". Great reason to get into public service.

Stirpe has one solid message that his union backers agree with and want. According to Stirpe, we need to raise taxes across the board so we have more money to spend on the teacher's union, the electrical workers union, the steamfitters union, the service workers union. Raising taxes creates jobs. Miller's platform of cutting taxes so people keep more of their money is so out of touch. You go Al... you go.

The "Obama Healthcare Tax" is the single largest tax increase on the American people ...ever.

Obama lied when he said it wasn't a tax increase... it is. The middle class looses on this massive tax increase. Let me know how much you love it when your tax returns are pillaged to pay for this monstrosity.

The Downtown Committee might want to look at changing their ad campaign. That is, far and away, the stupidest TV spot I've seen in a long, long time. I hope they didn't pay any money for that... it's laughable.

Saying "It will not" and "both are disastrous for our environment and there are other choices" without anything other than "because I think it does..." doesn't hold water. The arguments on the left are evaporating.

According to John Deutch, a former Carter, Clinton and Obama administration official who chaired a special 2011 federal panel looking into shale gas production in the United States, while speaking at Cornell University in May, " The recent surge in shale gas production represents a tremendous benefit to our nation."

Anti-fracking activists such as Ms. Swords, are nothing more than that, activists, who protest without looking at all the information and science available. For it is easier to demonized than have an intellectual debate based on facts... from both sides of the argument. People, like Ms. Swords, protest for the sake of protest and only their opinions and demonetization, not scientific fact, will be allowed into their side of the debate.

Mr, Deutch also argued the point that if companies conscientiously try to minimize their environmental impact, the benefits could be "magnificent."

Are there are other choices? Yes, lets take wind power... It's a great thought in theory but is it practical? Well, seeing how the first windmills will built in the 7th Century and it's now 2012 and we get 1% of our energy from wind, I'm going with the "not right now..." answer. Why don't we continue to work on becoming energy self sufficient while continuing research that can get us to renewable sources in the future. And why don't we do this based on fact not scare tactics? The problem with the activists on the left is they have never let the facts interfere with a good (self made) crisis. It's all or nothing and there is no room for debate... maybe because they know they may be proved wrong. Ms. Swords... I'm sure Occupy has some room for you.

On this issue, I'll side with President Obama's guy John Deutch who is an emeritus professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Senator John DeFrancisco was the the lone opponent to this project and said it was a bad deal for the taxpayers from day one. A common sense public servant who understands what his job is... looking out for the good of the tax payer. He said this is exactly what was going to happen, and it did. There is no gray area with him... you know where he stands and he isn't afraid to debate his stance. He gets my vote EVERYTIME.

The left has never let the facts interfere with a good (self made) crisis. It doesn't matter how much data, research and information you present, the left will always move towards scare tactics and name calling. It's who they are. No civil discourse or debate about facts... it's emotional... and facts have no place in the debate. The left being so "Brilliant" will never debate in fact, only the stories that have been told to trigger emotions. Great article from Ms. Schmitt by the way. Did you notice the posts here... berating someone for their success and for speaking in documented research and facts... typical leftist rhetoric...yawn.

Not only is she the shadiest Mayor Syracuse has ever seen, she despises our Veterans. She was a no show last year at the Veterans Day Ceremony and she stiffed our Vets again at the Memorial Day Ceremony at the Veterans Cemetery. She has circumvented monies illegally to her candidates and has no regard for the law... and the sad thing is, she'll probably get voted back in because she has a "D" after her name, how pathetic.